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by Michael Roffman and Cap Blackard on January 14, 2015, 10:00am
Welcome to Producer’s Chair, a new mini-column in which Editor-in-Chief Michael Roffman offers his own career advice to artists and various figureheads in the film and music industry. In this installment, Roffman teams up with his fellow Florida-born partner-in-crime Cap Blackard to outline the best way for Universal to keep the Miami Vice franchise alive. Spoiler: It involves your living room. And several plot points in the original series.
Miami Vice changed television. With the blur of a speeding Ferrari and the shock of pink neon, the series brought an unprecedented cinematic edge to the small screen. Its brooding, music-driven sequences, calculated art direction, and gritty storylines captivated audiences and stopped the world every Friday night. Last month, rumors began swirling online that Universal was interested in rebooting Miami Vice for yet another film. (If you recall, director Michael Mann, who served as the original series’ executive producer, delivered the exact same thing in 2006 to polarizing results.) But we have an even better suggestion: bring Miami Vice back to television.
Of the myriad things that made Miami Vice so special, bringing the scope of a feature film to episodic television was perhaps the most important. It’s not very difficult to link a trail post-Vice that weaves through David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, onward towards Chris Carter’s The X-Files, and eventually lands at the doorstep of HBO, where the format would be perfected by David Chase’s The Sopranos or David Simon’s The Wire. Today, episodic, small-screen cinema is rampant across every network, so it’s only right that Vice should rejoin the pack once again.
We propose a series relaunch: pushing the boundaries of television once again with a modern take on the the style, music, and storytelling of the original series, complete with an all-new cast and some familiar faces. This isn’t a nostalgia trip. For all intents and purposes, this is a full-blown reboot. But rather than reimagining the exploits of Crockett and Tubbs, this Miami Vice subtly builds on the history that modern audiences have at least a cursory understanding of while launching characters that a new generation of viewers can identify with: Crockett and Rivera.
Entire Article; http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/01/miami-vice-return-to-television/
Welcome to Producer’s Chair, a new mini-column in which Editor-in-Chief Michael Roffman offers his own career advice to artists and various figureheads in the film and music industry. In this installment, Roffman teams up with his fellow Florida-born partner-in-crime Cap Blackard to outline the best way for Universal to keep the Miami Vice franchise alive. Spoiler: It involves your living room. And several plot points in the original series.
Miami Vice changed television. With the blur of a speeding Ferrari and the shock of pink neon, the series brought an unprecedented cinematic edge to the small screen. Its brooding, music-driven sequences, calculated art direction, and gritty storylines captivated audiences and stopped the world every Friday night. Last month, rumors began swirling online that Universal was interested in rebooting Miami Vice for yet another film. (If you recall, director Michael Mann, who served as the original series’ executive producer, delivered the exact same thing in 2006 to polarizing results.) But we have an even better suggestion: bring Miami Vice back to television.
Of the myriad things that made Miami Vice so special, bringing the scope of a feature film to episodic television was perhaps the most important. It’s not very difficult to link a trail post-Vice that weaves through David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, onward towards Chris Carter’s The X-Files, and eventually lands at the doorstep of HBO, where the format would be perfected by David Chase’s The Sopranos or David Simon’s The Wire. Today, episodic, small-screen cinema is rampant across every network, so it’s only right that Vice should rejoin the pack once again.
We propose a series relaunch: pushing the boundaries of television once again with a modern take on the the style, music, and storytelling of the original series, complete with an all-new cast and some familiar faces. This isn’t a nostalgia trip. For all intents and purposes, this is a full-blown reboot. But rather than reimagining the exploits of Crockett and Tubbs, this Miami Vice subtly builds on the history that modern audiences have at least a cursory understanding of while launching characters that a new generation of viewers can identify with: Crockett and Rivera.
Entire Article; http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/01/miami-vice-return-to-television/
